Lightning Tournament
Results:
Garvin Gray 2 John Curran 0
Andrew Robinson 2 Mark Taylor 0
Mark Taylor 2 John Curran 0
Andrew Robinson 2 Garvin Gray 0
Mark Taylor 1 Garvin Gray 1
Brian Thomas 2 John Curran 0
Brian Thomas 2 Andrew Robinson 0
Mark Taylor 1 Peter Hiller 1
James Hiller 1 John Curran 1
Andrew Robinson 2 Peter Hiller 0
Brian Thomas 2 Mark Taylor 0
Garvin Gray 2 James Hiller 0
Peter Hiller 2 John Curran 0
Peter Hiller 2 James Hiller 0
Tonight a further 14 games were played. Everyone was involved in lightning play except Ray and new member John Roper who played a few slower games.
The old grudge match resumed and James pulled an upset against the out-of-form John Curran in games one. James was a long was ahead on the board but making no headway and seemed in danger of losing on time when John made an illegal move and James claimed victory. Second time round and it was a different story with John achieving an early bishop-queen mate on the a1-h8 diagonal. At the end of the game John acknowledged that he had given a boost to James’ confidence with his collapse in the first game.
Other games went mainly to form, although Mark played above himself and seems extremely unlikely to repeat his wooden-spoon performances of the past two years. Tonight also saw the match up of first and second from last year between Brian Thomas (fresh from coming second behind Sherab Guo-Yuthok in the Australian Major in Canberra) and Andrew Robinson. Brian easily won game one on the board, but needed the clock to win game two against an opponent who negligently concentrated on winning on the board when the clock was always going to be determinant!
Lightning 2007: Current standings
All players to play 2 games against each opponent
|
No. |
NAME |
POINTS |
PLAYED |
|
1 |
Andrew Robinson |
12 |
14 |
|
2 |
Brian Thomas |
6 |
6 |
|
3 |
Garvin Gray |
5 |
8 |
|
4 |
Peter Hiller |
5 |
8 |
|
5 |
Brian Willcock |
4 |
4 |
|
6 |
Mark Taylor |
4 |
10 |
|
7 |
John Curran |
2 |
16 |
|
8 |
Tom Szekely |
1 |
4 |
|
9 |
James Hiller |
1 |
10 |
Lightning Tournament 2007 results in detail
Odd Knights Tournament
No games played tonight.
The Odd Knights zip file contains two files:
Quote of the night
“Tonight I drew first blood.” – James Hiller on his first up victory against John.